Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people he had relied on to pick his top assistants when he was elected Governor of California in 1966. Says William French Smith, Reagan's personal attorney and head of the team that is considering the appointments: "Being involved in the 1966 appointment task force is a big asset to us this time...
...backslapping and dinner chitchat will not by themselves bring down the inflation rate, they can help pass legislation designed to do that. The ability to create an aura of cheerful optimism, manipulate symbols and establish smooth personal relations with allies and adversaries is a vital asset for a President. Ronald Reagan proved last week that he possesses it in abundance, and he will surely need it in the battles that lie ahead when the honey moon is over...
...this entire Harvard team, everything has come together for the Los Angeles native in his final season. Woolway is the current runner-up in tackling on a defense rated second in the Ivies. And his most valuable asset never shows up in the stats...
They single out Gerald R. Ford--who saved himself from also-ran status by deciding to stay out of the race in the first place--as Reagan's greatest asset in the party. The former president has logged thousands of miles this fall stumping for his former arch-rival and has attacked Carter as if his own neck is on the line...
...ride horses with Johnson for all the photographers. Humphrey presents himself as the eternally loyal soldier, even when the association with Johnson proved politically harmful. Of the 1968 election, Humphrey says, "Most people were dead wrong" that Johnson hurt his campaign--that in fact the president had been "an asset...